12 MYTHOLOGY. 
MYTHOLOGY. 
2 EW articles of common life have fig- 
ured as largely in history and fable 
as the ege. 
The proverb “ Omne Vivum ew 
Ovo,” is the basis of the religious belief of many 
Eastern nations. 
The formation of the world from chaos was 
well compared to the development of the chicken 
from the egg. 
The mundane or universal egg may be traced 
in all mythology. Under various forms the 
same legend appears, namely: that on the 
waste of waters a mighty bird deposited an egg 
from which the earth was evolved. 
In his “ Histoire Religieuse du Calendrier” 
_[Paris, 1776], the learned M. Court de Gebelin 
gives many of these legends. 
Here it is only possible to give a condensed 
translation from this quaint old French book. 
